The topic of this book is the development of automated and inexpensive tools that transfer medical tests from a specialized clinical laboratory directly to the point of care, using biochip technology. Immediate access to medically relevant biochemical information for doctors and nurses promises to revolutionize patient care and dramatically lower costs. The miniaturization and automation of med…
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Production and innovation activities are being re-distributed across the world. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are proving the major engine of global growth, being less impacted by the financial crisis than developed economies or able to recover more quickly. Asia in the Global ICT Innovation Network takes a close look at the information and communication technologies (IC…
This book provides a comprehensive survey on related work for radio link quality estimation, which covers the characteristics of low-power links, the fundamental concepts of link quality estimation in wireless sensor networks, a taxonomy of existing link quality estimators and their performance analysis. It then shows how link quality estimation can be used for designing protocols and mechanism…
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference on Ambient Media and Systems, AMBI-SYS 2013, held in Athens, Greece, in March 2013. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers focus on emerging technologies, services and solutions for new, human-centric intelli…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2012 held in Leixlip, Ireland, in December 2012 which was held in conjunction with the Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, ERIC 2012. The 14 papers (4 invited papers and 10 full papers) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers cover the followin…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, held in Kherson, Ukraine, in June 2013. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on systems, infrastruct…